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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-02-19
A GREAT INVENTION.
II Successful 1t Will Revolutionize tho
Coal Mining Business.

III Successful 1t Will Revolutionixe tho
Coal Mining Business.
A coai-miner near Pittsburgh, Pa,
has secured patent on a coal-mining
machine which is expected to revolu-
tionize the coal-mining business. The
machine consists in the operation OF one
or more circular saws, or disks, fitted
upon one or more shafts. The whole is
worked by means OF very small rotary
engine, set upon q frame, which is
placed on wheels, So shat the miner can
move it whenever he likes with ease.
The machine is put in motion by COM
pressed air or steam, or else it can be
worked by hand-power As soon as the
power is turned on the saws commence
to revolve and will be forced gradually
into and along the wall of the coal-vein.
1t will make an undercut of four and q
half to six feet, as required, saving all
the coal which was hitherto lost by the
use of the pick. 1t weighs less than
two hundred pounds, and can be ma
nipulated by one man. Fifty tons a
day can be easily mined. A saving of
twenty per can't. will be realized by the
mine-owner, rs there will be no waste,
while the miner will augment his daily
earnings by at least double the amount
without half the exertion he has now.
The working of the machine does not
require any skill or practice in the
handling of it. While, by the use of
the pick, the miners make row great
deal of waste, the saws of the machine
by striking straight into the vein of coal
will cut solid blocks out of the vein and
IA AXE every particle Of the vein market
able coal. = Chicago Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-02-19
MEXICAN WINDOWS.
The System of "Hooking" Practiccd by
the Petty Thieves OF Mexico.

Ine IeLCJ InleVeS OF ueAlCO.
Mexicans seem to entertain the idea
that windows were made to look in at
as well as to look out of, and it is a
matter of daily occurrence for men,
women and children of the gamin order,
including peddlers and professional
beggars, to congregate outside the bars
and stand calmly staring in at us by
the hour. The first sight of these barred
windows strikes the stranger in Mexico
rather unpleasantly, and he is apt to
fancy himself in prison behind them
with his iron bedstead and brick floor
accessories. In time, however, he real
ICES not only the convenience but the
necessity of them, and by and by feels
an uneasy sense of insecurity if by some
rare chance he finds himself not thus
protected. The greater portion OF
Mexico is land of perpetual summer,
where windows must be open both night
and day, and these gratings can not be
"pcked" like locks or noiselessly cut
like panes of glass. But though one
may sleep here III perfect security With
ont closing a shutter, it is well to move
ones effects from proximity to the win
dows-for the ladroncs have habit of
throwing in ropes with hooks attached
and dexterously drawing ont even your
garments-from which practice, per-
haps, originated the Texan slang word
hooking" for stealing. 1t is only
Justice to add that there is far less
thieving going on in Mexico, in proper
ton to population, than in our own
country, especially among the poorer
classes. venture to assert that with
all your spring bolts and careful pre-
cautions to bring in even the door-mats
at nightfall there is more stealing done
in any northern city in single day
than in all Mexico in years time.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-02-19
UNDERGROUND WIRES.


The Perfect System of Subterranean Tese-
graphs Existing in Germany.
Germany is enclosed in an elaborate
net Of underground wires. These were
first taken in hand in the year 1876
Berlin to Halle being the first line laid
and by 1881 the project had been COM
pleted. This net, which includes all the
chief commercial and military centers
of the empire, extends from Konigsberg
in the northeast to Metz and Strasburg
in the west, and consists of trunk and
branch lines forming total length of
| about 8, 463 kilometres of cable, or 81
372 Hlometers of telegraphie wires, each
cable comprising from seven to four
wires, according to the pressure of in
tercourse in various districts. The total
cost Of laying this 5, 463 kilometers of
cable was only 80. 200, 900 marks, or a
little more than one and half mil
lion pounds. SO that the paltry expense
of connecting London and Lowestoft, or
London and Dover, by underground
wires can easily be calculated. As far
as time is concerned, the cable, for ex-
ample, between Berlin and Halle, 176
kilometers, was laid in about three short
months; and what could not English
energy accomplish in the same period?
All the cables only require a narrow
trench one meter deep, this being quite
sufficient to protect them from the
extremes of soil temperature, whether
heat or cold. They generally follow
railway routes or turnpike roads, these
us rule, forming the shortest availa-
BILE distance between two given points.
1t is true that overhead wires work
little better ceteyis paribuS than under
| ground cables, owing to the effect of
what is technically called induction on
the conducting power of the copper
wires, but on the other hand the ex-
pense of maintaining the former in good
order is sometimes as much as nineteen
marks per annum for every kilometer,
while the latter cost next to nothing,
and this in itself is surely very serious
consideration. 1t must not, of course,
be supposed that in Germany the over
head system of telegraphy has been
| discarded; on the contrary, the great
bulk of correspondence is still for
warded over pole-supported wire; but
as the German army is organized on the
basis not only of regimental, but also of
strategic reserves, so the telegraph sys-
tenn of this wonderful nation also pro-
vides for all emergencies of snow,
lightning, thunder, rowing Cossack, or
invading Gaul. 1t was probably the
military necessities of the empire as
much as any thing that gave rise to the
idea of a telegraph cable net, but mean
while the ordinary and every day inter-
! ests of the country profit greatly by its
existence.
To Germany belongs the enterprise
and the honor of leading the way in this
. direction, and France is the only other
nation which has initiated her example.
I though as yetto avery timid and limited
extent.-BerIin Cor London Times
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-02-19
POOR AERICAl
Henry Stanley Tells How 1t Has Been
More "Darkened" by the Advent Of
Civilization and Rum

Henry Stanley Tells How 1t Has Been
More "Darkened" by the Advent OF
Civilization and Rum.
During his recent visit to America,
Henry M. Stanley placed himself
on record with regard to the use of
alcoholic stimulants among those who
undergo the hardships and exposure
which accompany the work of explor-
ing a new country. Mr.. Stanley's
African experiences make him compe-
tent to speak with authority, and in an
interview published in the Voice, of
this city, he declares very decidedly
against the use of gin and other liquors
as practiced by the old traders and
travellers in the Dark Continent. He
says: 1.-The very atmosphere seems hos
tile to the physique of the men who
pin their faith on whisky, rum and
brandy. Such men invariably sue
cumb." There has existed general
impression among Europeans that
alcohol in some form must be used to
ward Off the attacks of fever and ma
laria that are chief among the dangers
encountered in travelling through AZ
rican swamps and deserts. Mr.. Stan
ley declares that such use only aggra-
Yates disease and hastens death.
Upon the natives the results of asso-
citation and contact with the liquor
using whites have been deplorably APP
parent. On the west coast, which has
been longer known than the east and
south, intempcrance has existed to an
extent that has greatly retarded the
civilization and advancement of the
people. Gin is the favorite liquor in
that part of the continent, and in some
places it is the substitute for money,
being supplied by traders to the natives
in exchange for their commodities.
The physical excellence of the people
enables them to indulge to excess for %
long time without breaking down.
They learn to love the liquor before it
has injured them sufficiently to warn
against continuing its use The evil
has as yet been confined almost entire
~ W tiIO SoooC lC9loi' NHcLo IL HIS
greatly hindered missionary work.
In the interior it is as yet unknown,
simply because theVhite man has not
yet penetrated so that he can conduct
a regular commerce. When he does
reach there, it is all too apparent that
he will take the odious traffic in alchol
along. 1t is too profitable to be given
up for 50 trifing a reason as the moral
and physical safety and health of these
savage people! What a reflection on
the civilization and humanity of the
Caucasian race! The governments of
those European nations that are assunn-
ing control of these new African col
onies, might greatly hinder the per-
nicious business, if they were so dis
posed. Mr.. SANKEY'S testimony is d
strong argument for their so doing. 1t
would be comparatively easy to keep
the whisky and gin trade out of these
countries as yet uncontaminated by ITS
presence.-M. Y. Witness.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-02-19
JINGC SCIENCE.
Tho Effect of Old Maids on the Appear.
ance of the English PeopIe


ance of the English People.
"Do you know, SIR" inquired an
American tourist of his companion
while doing England, ''the reason for
the fresh, healthful appearance of the
English people? Their complexion is
far superior to ours, or our countrymen
over the herring pond"
"Well, l know what Prof. 'Uxley
Saws"
And what reason does he advance9'
"Well. 'Uxley says it is all h'owing
to the hold maids"
Owing to old maids! You surprise
mer'
Fact. 'Uxley figures it out in this
way; Now you know the Hinglish are
very fond of roast beef?"
But what has that to do with old
maids?"
go slow This genuine H'inglish
beef is the best and most nutritious beet
in the world, and it h 'imparts beauti-
full complexionr'
"Well, about the old maidso"
Yes; you see the h'excellence OF
this H'inglish beef is due h exclusively
to red clover. Do you see the point?'
"All but the old maids. They are not
in sight as far as l can see" replied the
American, with sigh.
why, don't you see9 This red clover
is h'enriched, sweetened and fructified
by balsble bees"
"But where do the old maids come
imp" said the inquisitive American,
wiping his brow YEARLY.
why, it is as plain as the nose on
your face. The h'only h'enemy of the
humble bee is the field mouse, which
undermines and robs their nest"
"But what have roast beef, red clover,
humble bees and field mice got to do
with old maids?"
"Why, you must be very h'obtuse.
Don't you perceive that the humble bees
would soon be DIFFERENTIATED by the
field mice if it were not for"
"Old maids!'
mo, if it were not for cats; and the
hold maids of hold H'ingland keep the
country thoroughly stocked up with
cats, and so we can directly trace the
h'effect of the rosy H'inglish com
plexions to the benign cause of II 'inglish
hold maids; at least. that's what Uxley
says, and that's just where the hold
maids come hin. Science makes clear
many mysterious things, my Hameri-
can friend. '-Te1aS SjfinqS.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-02-19
EARLY AVARlCE.
Vice Which Once Planted in the Charae-
ter Grows with Incredible Rapidly.

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ter Grows with Incredible Rapidly.
The newspapers frequently contain
accounts of old men and women who
live in want while they are boarding
, large sums of money. Avarice is a re-
pulsive vice of the aged, but in the
young it is against nature. Yet, if it
is once planted in child's character,
it grows with incredible rapidity and
strength.
A young woman, the last scion of a
respectable family, lived in one of our
inland towns, supporting herself by
sewing. She occupied one bare cham
Der, in such poverty as to perplex her
friends. who knew that she had twice
inherited large legacies. She became
i'll with an agonizing disease, brought
on, the physician said, by lack of suffi-
cient food, and grew weaker, day by
day, until she could not leave her bed.
Her physician, knowing that she had
money hidden, spoke frankly to her at
last, telling her that her life depended
on her taking tonics and rich. nourish-
ing food, which her poor neighbors
could not buy. IF you do not take
this food you will not live a week." he
said. The girl remained thoughtful
and quiet when he was gone. After u
few hours she bade her nurses bring a
chest which was in the room near to her
bed so that she could reach it. The key
she kept under her pillow. As one day
after another passed, she would occa-
sionally finger the key and look visit
fully at the chest; but she did not open
it. On the sixth day she died. In the
last struggle with death she held out
the key, motioning to her nurse to open
the chest. But it was too late. During
all those days she had weighed her gold
against her life. The money was the
dearer of the two. Though she knew
she could not carry it with her, she
could not bring herself to spend dol
lar of it.
A still more horrible example of the
effect of avarice was reported III the
French journals last winter. An old
woman, living with her children, had
possession OF u sum less than hundred
dollars. To force her to give it up,
they literally burned her alive.
! We all shudder at passion which
can so brutalize human beings. Yet
how many men are moved by it under
some other name. Here is wealthy
woman who fills every closet nj her
house with costly china, at which sho
never looks; or man who buys vast
tracts of land which he neither culti-
Yates nor sells. The sole use of either
money or goods in this world is to make
some living being wiser or better or
happier. The man who binders this
purpose, to crafty his love of boarding,
is miser, though he may give himself
some more honorable title Youth $
Companion.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-02-19
A Neat Apology.

There was n brilliaotparty at the res
'dence of one of TIE most prominent
State officials at Austin, Tex. OF course,
,here was dancing and music. Hostel
ter McGinnis and Miss Esmeralda Long
coffin were also present. Neither of
them dancing, they were seated on y
sofa, talking, when suddenly Hostetter
placed his arm around the waist of Miss
Longcoflin and gave it hearty squeeze.
What do you mean, sirr' exclaimed
che indignant maiden.
There is no harm lit. 1 can't dance
and l don't see why those gentlemen on
he floor can hug the ladies and do
aot. too"
The apology was accepted. - TEXAS
SVlin9s.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-02-19

"A Holyokc (Mass) thread manu-
tacturcr has received from Leeds large
skcin of black silk which has lain in q
pond since the Mill River disaster.
which wrecked his mill, with others. in
1874 This souvenir of the food was
found September 5, and although it has
lain in the pond twelve years the silk
retains its color, has good gloss, and
the thread is strong, which shows the
almost indestructible nature of the ma
tcrial. Boston Journal
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-02-19
LEGlSLATiON IN ENGLAND.

Early Endeavors of Great Britain to
Check the Rum Curse Running Riot
Among Her People.
The most stringent laws we have had
passed were those of James l., which
may almost be called the first piece of
temperance legislation; for though the
act of Edward VI. gave power to the
justices to suppress unnecessary tip
pling-houses, it was chiefly directed
! against using unlawful games, and
! bound the licensed victualers to keep
good order in their houses. The act
in the first year Of James was intended
to restrain the inordinate haunting and
tipping in inns and ale-houses; it de-
clares the ''true use of ale-houses" to
be for the relief of wayfarers, and not
for the entertainment of lewde and
! idle people," There was to be a PEN
atty of ten shillings for permitting
'unlawful drinking" and all drinking
was unlawful except by bona fide trav-
elers, and by artisans and laborers
during their dinner hour. The public
house was only to be open to residents
in the locality for one hour in the
day for the consumption of liquor
on the premises. This act was made
perpetual, with some notifications,
intended to render conviction
more easy, in the last Parliament Of
James. In the first of Charles the
penalties were somewhat relaxed, but
the law could not be enforced, and
under these stringent drunkenness
increased apace. 1t had reached an
extraordinary pitch in 1869, when a
French Protestant wrote from London;
"There is within this city and in all the
towns of England which have passed
through, so prodigious a number of
houses where they sell certain drink
called ale, that think q good half of
the inhabitants may be denominated
ale-bouse keepers. But what
is most deplorablc where gentlemen sit
and spend much more of their time
drinking muddy kind of beverage,
and using tobacco, which has univers-
ally besotted the nation, and at which
hear they have consumed many noble
estates. And that nothing
may be wanting to the height of luxury
and impiety of this abomination, they
have translated the organs out of the
churches to set them up in taverns,
chanting their dithyrambics and bestial
bacchanalias to the tune of those in
strnmants which xyara wont 70 ase;s+
them in the celebration of Gods
praises, and regulate the voices of thu
worst singers in the world, which are
the English in their churches at pres
emit - Contemporary Rovieto.
Two SAMPLES of whisky were lately
purchased in Worcester, Mass, the Spy
says, at the mitigation of local
clergyman, who had them analysed.
One was from prominent drugstore,
the other from one of the lowest dives
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-02-19

--Ex-Governor Curri6, of Pennsyi-
vania, has recently had an operation
performed on his right eye, which had
been sightlcss for twenty years. The
sight was instantly restored. -PAilaGct-
pliiS Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-02-19

The cave animals of North America,
according to Prof a. S. Packard, COM
prise total of 172 species of blind
creatures, nearly all of which are
mostly white in color.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-02-19

Two SAMPLES of whisky were lately
purchased in Worcester, Mass, the Spy
says, at the mitigation of local
clergyman, who had them analysed.
One was from prominent drugstore,
the other from one of the lowest dives
in town. Both, the report says, were
alike vile, and so near alike that only
an expert could distinguish one from
the other.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-02-19
A Word to the Boys.

If we are to have drunkards in the
future, some of them are to come from
the boys to whom l am writing; and
ask you again if you want to be one of
them. No, of course you don't! l
know you don't drink now, and it
seems to you as if you never would.
But your temptation will come, and it
probably will come in this way. You
will find yourself, some time, with a
number of companions, and they will
have bottle of wine on the table.
They will drink and offer it to you.
They viii regard it as manly prac-
tice, and very likely they viii look
upon you as milksop if you don't in
dulge with them. Then what will you
do? eh, what will you do? Will you
say: "No, no! none of that stuff for
me. know a trick worth half-a-dozen
of that" or will you take the glass
with your own common sense protest
ing and your conscience making the
whole draught bitter, and feeling
that you have damaged yourself, and
then go off with hot head and skulk-
ing soul that at once begins to make
apologies for itself, and will keep do
ing so during all his lifeP Boys, do
not become drunkards. -Dr. Holland
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-02-19

A PROMINENT life insurance man in
Hartford, Conn, says that his expert
cnce and the records of life insurance
have shown him that young men of
twenty years of age who abstain entire
ly from all kinds of intoxicating
drinks have a good prospect of living
to be sixty-four years of age; while the
moderate drinker, at twenty years of
age, can only expect to live to be thir-
ty-fve and one-h2f years old.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-03-15

SeeuSiHeH pUU VHeII Hed'IS d NUheF"~NN
years ago to produce q new potato. OuI
family variety is by birth a native of the
high Andes, perhaps the very driest
region on the worlds surface 1t oc
Cured to these scientific persons that the
terrible disease to which the root has OF
late years become liable might be due tC
the fact that it is extensively cultivated
in the wettest part of Europe. Darwin
however, discovered a wild potato in the
ChOnos Archipelago, off the southeast
coast of South America, which fiOurisheC
naturally in the wettest marshes. Sc
Lord Cathcart and his friends resolved tC
try to harden the potato of commerce by
crossing it with the moisture loving kind
Roots We're procured from Kew and The
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money is still needed for tables, chairs,
bookcases, black boards, etc. Any arti-
cles suitable for the uses OF the hall may
be sent to the building, or will be called
for Money may be sent to the Treas
urer, Henry Waterhouse.
AIIeyne-Wade Performances.
The Hawaiian Opera House was well
filled last evening with an audience
gathered by the announcement Of per-
formance by the Alleyne-Wade Comedy
Company. The programme opened
with "Sweethearts," a comedy by Mr.
w. s. Gilbert, which was written by
him about ten years ago. The part of
Harry Spreadlow was taken by Mr..
Alleyne, that of Jenny Northcott by Miss
Wade, and Ruth, Jenny's maid servant,
by Miss Aston. There is another char
acter in the comedy, Wilcox Ca gardener)
which was allotted to Mr.. A. White, but
he failed to appear. The piece is in two
acts, with a supposed intermissiOn Of
thirty years-not twenty-five as stated
on the programme-during which Jenny
became a woman of middle age, and
Harry a equity old East Indian merchant.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-03-15

People are apt to attach too much I'm
portance to the perpetual summer of tht
famed Islands OF the blest, " forgetting
that in the rugged northern cline mer
OF pith and valor, and women OF beauty
and virtue are bred and nurtured, anC
that their long winters afford opportuni
ties for invigorating recreation and en-
joyment incomparably superior to any
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- N'L -

February sd.
This is the same person who was ar
rested and tried in the Police Court fol
larceny at the Hawaiian Hotel, but go
clear.
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The money contrib6rec
has been appropriated for cleafA-lg,
snrnininp and PAINTING the rooms, and
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was well HlOuI

pecially in the second act, and gave evi
dence of possessing considerable coined!
talent Mr.. Alleyne was rather weak il
the first act, but showed improvement il
the second one as the old merchant
Miss Aston, as Ruth, had very little tc
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SIX lnOnJnS iii pfISOl

the county jail and to pay fine OF 5000
or serve 100 days additional. He be-
came trusty at the city prison, and in
some way managed to alter his commit
ment to read POO days additional in
stead OF 100 days This he did evident
ly because he liked his prison quarters
and did not want to leave when his
term really expired last week Wednes~
day The fraud was discovered and he
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| sorts. Seeds were thus obtained from tn
| Kew plants for the first time, and tn
! tubers developed surprisingly under Gu
! tiyation and proved of fair edible quality
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King street,
t, and AIessrs.
- anH Win. Unger. The
1919 ; % 400 yards, each man firing